Car-coupling.



G. PAGNI.

IAE OUPLING.

APELIOATION FILED JAN. 25, 1911.

1,050,j684, Patented Jan.14,1913.

j aoaaeea.

GUILIO PAGNI, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1913.

Application filed January 25, 1911. Serial No. 604,577.

` To all whom e't may concern.'

Be it known that zenof the United mento, in 'the county of Sacramento,State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Car-Couplers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, such as will enable others skilledin theart to which it a-ppertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this application.

This invention relates to improvements in railway rolling stock, andparticularly to car couplers for day coaches and Pullman ears, theobject of the invention being to produce a coupler which can be openedfrom both sides of the car, vthus obviating the necessity of theoperator passing across from one side of the car to the other andbetween two cars about to come together which often results in his beingkilled or injured.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensivedevice and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposesfor which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure parts will fullyappear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in the I, GUILIo PAGNI, a citii several views.

,Figure l is a front elevation of a day. coach coupling showing myimproved -attachment thereon. Fig. 2 isa top plan view of the same. ,Fig2 is'a detached View 0f a shifting lever. Fig 4 is a top plan View of ayoke adapted to receive such shifting lever.

Referring characters of reference on the drawings, l designates a daycoach coupler which is of the ordinary type, and hence no description ofthe internal mechanism is herein entered into. i

The numeral 2 rod o'r lever of the coupler and 3 the ordinary rod nowused to shift said opening lever in order to open the jaw of thecoupler. lvIy improved device is for the purpose of enabling thisopening lever 2 to be operated now more particularly to the,

States, residing at Sacraj bolt through the coupler at and relativearrangement of designates the opening l said coupler,

from both sides of the car, vide the following structure, namely; Ifirst the curved neck or throat thereof as at a, a cross bolt having andhence I proj" a bifurcated yoke 5 between which is exibly mounted a.substantially vV-shaped operating lever y6 journaled in the yoke 5 atits V- shaped point Z9 and being connected at its lower end c with theouter end ofthe member 2 by means of a chain 7 and there being a. rod 8connected with its upper end al and adapted to project to the side ofthe car opposite the side to which the rod 3 projects, and thus it willreadily Abe seen that the opening leverl 2 may be operated from eitherside of the car, thus obviating the necessity of crossing between twooars about to Colne .together opening the coupling.

From the foregoing description it' will readily appear that I haveproduced such a device as substantially fulfils the objects of theinvention as set forth herein.

'While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferredconstruction of the" device,l stillI in practice deviations from suchdetail may be resorted to as do for the purpose of not form a1 departurefrom the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described, my invention, what I claim as new and useful anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A car coupler comprising a coupler proper having an opening lever lyinghorizontally with respect to said coupler, a rod flexibly connected withthe outer end of said lever and projecting beyond one sideof thecoupler, a bolt secured transversely through a yoke on said bolt, aV-shaped lever mounted in said yoke and lying tra-nsversely with respectto said opening lever, a chain connected from thelower end of saidV-shaped lever to the outer end of said opening lever and a rodprojecting `from the upper end of said-Vehaped lever tothe side of saidcouplerppposite that sido to which said first named rod projects asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.`

Q f GUILIO PAGNI. lVitnesses FRANK H. CARTER, Pintor S. WEBSTER.

roo

